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Vanuatu | 2024 | CERF Vanuatu, Port Vila. In the neighbourhood of Mamau in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, Anna and her husband, the local church leader, have supported their community through...

Ukraine | 2024 | CBPF Ukraine, Chernihivska Oblast. Valentyna Tapekba has been breeding quail for about eight years. “My son has low haemoglobin,” she explains, and hearing that quails’ eggs can help...

Ukraine | 2024 | CBPF Ukraine, Kherson. Elizaveta is 83 years old and has lived her whole life in Kherson. As a young woman, she worked on a collective farm. She raised two sons with her husband, who...

Lebanon, Beirut and other locations. Umm Hassan fled Nabatieh, a city in southern Lebanon, with her daughter and grandchildren, after their home was damaged in a bombing. They had to drive for two...

Central African Republic. Last year, Elizabeth*, 17, lost both her parents when armed groups came to her hometown. They took her and held her prisoner for months. Elizabeth escaped and sought shelter...

Central African Republic, Baoro. Fadimatou is seven years old. Her family fled to Cameroon to escape persistent violence in their hometown. Now, Fadimatou and her family are among the Central African...

Venezuela, El Rincón. “Fishing is for men,” is the saying around these parts. In remote communities like this one in Sucre state, ensuring people have enough quality, nutritious food can be a...

Yemen |2024|CERF Yemen, Hudaydah governorate. Dr. Jamal Al Babeli is a young doctor at Bajil Hospital, working on the front lines of a growing health crisis. Over eight years into the conflict,...

Syria | 2024| CERF Northwest Syria. After thirteen years of conflict, hundreds of thousands of people live in displacement in Syria, in conditions that were meant to be temporary. For Um Musab, in...

Syria | CERF | 2024 Northwest Syria. “The water situation was tragic,” recalls Mustafa, who is living in a displacement camp in Northwest Syria since fleeing fighting many years ago. It was always...

Ethiopia, Matema. Abdi, who is Ethiopian, went to Sudan for work nearly two decades ago. He and his wife made a decent living, saving what they could and sending money back home to Ethiopia to help...

Mali | CERF | 2024 Mali, Ménaka. Aissata (not her real name), remembers the day she fell ill. "My stomach hurt that day, I was weak and I had no appetite. Worst of all, I had no money and my husband...

Haiti | 2024 | CERF Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Marie is 67 years old. She used to sell goods at the market to get by, but since the gang violence in Haiti has escalated she is living in the Colbert...

Sudan | 2024 | CERF Sudan, El Fasher. On 13 October 2024, Dr.Suhiba was performing an operation. “A mortar hit the hospital. I was so worried because the patient’s wounds were open, and everyone was...

Colombia | CERF | 2024 Colombia, Chocó. The presence of armed groups in Chocó, Valle del Cauca, and Nariño regions has made life very uncertain and driven many people from their homes. Growing up in...

DRC | CERF | 2024 DR Congo, Tshopo and Ituri. In November last year, Mandoko, her husband, and their seven children had to flee their home when the Congo River flooded, submerging their village. "We...

Lebanon | CBPFs | 2024 Lebanon, Beirut. When Mariam, 27, left her village in southern Lebanon amid escalating bombardment, she left behind her home and life as she knew it. With her four children in...

Timor-Leste | 2024 | CERF Timor-Leste, Ermera. Agostina and her husband grow vegetables like cassava and taro in their home garden, providing essential food for their household. Agostina also sells...

Central African Republic | 2024 | CBPF Central African Republic, Birao. In Birao, Vakaga Prefecture, people have faced years of armed violence and intercommunal conflict. For more than a decade,...

Sudan | 2024 | CBPF Sudan, Blue Nile and South Kordofan. As the war in Sudan drags on, people are managing to survive – but under extremely difficult circumstances. The war has devastated the food...